Thank You, Biographers!
Biography is, of the various kinds of narrative writing, that which is most eagerly read, and most easily applied to the purposes of life. –Samuel Johnson, The Idler, 84 in A Johnson Sampler, edited by…
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Today’s One-Liner (#55)
The meaning of life lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul. –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, First Things, August/September 2024, p. 70,
Today’s Two-Liner (#54)
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and leftuntried. –G. K.Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World
How to Deal with the Clickers
The practice of charity, as I have said, dear Mother, was not always so sweet for me, and to prove it to you I am going to recount certain little struggles which will certainly make…
Today’s One-Liner (#52)
The day is short, and the work is great, and the laborers are sluggish, and the reward is much, and the Master is urgent. –Rabbi Tarfon, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the Fathers (or Pirke…
Today’s One-Liner (#51)
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. –Mother Teresa
Today’s One-Liner (#50)
I tell you one thing – if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. —Sri Sarada Devi
Today’s One-Liner (#49)
Dostoevsky says that we are all responsible for everything, before everyone, and I more than all the others. –Emmanuel Levinas, Is It Righteous to Be?
Today’s One-Liner (#48)
It is this attitude—this unblinking alertness to the meaning of each moment— that probably accounts for the intense compression of Thérèse’s spiritual development. –Carol Lee Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
Today’s One-Liner (#46)
Pain is an enemy only when we do not welcome it as a friend. —Indian proverb Quoted in Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes